The cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart.
The enclosed area created by and within the ribs.
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Examples for "rib cage"
Examples for "rib cage"
1For a brief moment, hope fluttered up from under her rib cage.
2A chill spread and filled my rib cage, a question taking form.
3Chris presses gingerly on the right side, just below the rib cage.
4Araminta heard the ponderous motions of larger systems through her rib cage.
5Something struck me hard, below the right side of my rib cage.
1Xavier's chest cavity had been split open and his vital organs removed.
2I'd lost her forever, broken and abandoned in some xith'cal's chest cavity.
3She had tiny tumours on her liver, stomach, abdomen and chest cavity.
4I looked into his chest cavity and saw organs melting in blue flame.
5Neb heard a high-pitched whine from deep inside Isaak's chest cavity.
6Lex's hands started shaking as her chest cavity became a furnace.
7Torn sheets of Kevlar parted, and I could see inside his chest cavity.
8She's pumping air into her chest cavity, she's collapsing her lungs.
9She removed over a litre of blood from his chest cavity.
10The chest cavity is thus enlarged from side to side and from behind forwards.
11The cough went on and on, like a paper-shredder working in his chest cavity.
12The bony shield was lifted to reveal the chest cavity.
13In silence, Charles spun the cipher into the lock and opened Isaak's chest cavity.
14The serous membrane enveloping the lung and lining the inner surface of the chest cavity.
15I think they're up in my chest cavity somewhere.
16The diaphragm is the large muscle which divides the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity.
Translations for chest cavity